“Every business large and small will be responsible for knowing the sales tax rates in [over 10,000] counties, towns, cities and states in the nation. The ruling is a Pandora’s box for expansive state taxing authority. This court decision is not limited to expanding the targets of the state sales tax. Politicians will use this court decision as a green light to export their income tax to individuals and companies in other states.”
Category Archives: Mainstream News
Midwestern farmers brace to lose billions in trade war

“The stakes are high because China buys roughly 30 percent of all America’s soy. The proposed 25 percent tariff — which is a tax buyers pay the government to purchase the commodity — ensures Chinese buyers will look elsewhere.”
Homeland Security mass US citizen face-scanning program rolled out in Orlando

“The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/eade4e6efbf442328b0e1eefabd98f05
Swann home security camera sends video clips to random people

“Swann is owned by the Infinova Group, a US-based security camera specialist with offices across the globe.”
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44628399
US denies China Mobile’s capitalism permit citing ‘national security’

“The NTIA said that its assessment rested ‘in large part on China’s record of intelligence activities and economic espionage targeting the US, along with China Mobile’s size and technical and financial resources.'”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/us-government-asks-fcc-to-deny-china-mobiles-license-request.html
N.S.A. Says It’s Purging Millions of Illegally Gathered Call and Text Records

“The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/nsa-call-records-purged.html
ICE whistleblower gets a visit from Homeland Security goons during TV interview

“Before the surprise visit, Schwab told Yuccas that both the Obama and Trump White Houses asked him to ‘spin’ information. But he said he felt compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against Oakland’s mayor.”
Nineteen ICE agents call for dissolution of agency

“They were concerned that the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration was preventing them from carrying out the agency’s other duties.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/latino/394757-more-than-a-dozen-ice-agents-call-to-abolish-agency
UK role in torture and rendition after 9/11 revealed

“The overseas agency MI6 and the domestic service MI5 were involved in hundreds of torture cases and scores of rendition cases.”
Homeland Security employees warned to watch out for blowback

“The memo recommends numerous safety precautions, including not displaying work badges in public, being careful with public conversations and using caution on all social networks. It also recommends DHS employees ‘always keep doors and windows locked’ and ‘be aware of unexpected changes in and around your home.'”
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeland-security-memo-today-increased-threats-2018-06-23/